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B. NORMAN. Fireplace Grate. No. 105,234.. Patented July 12, 18705.

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EMMA NORMAN, OFNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

LetterstPatent- No. 105,234, (lated July 12,1870.

FIRE-PLACE GRATE.

The scheule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

my object being to open the grate at the' bottoni, and

precipitate the contents of the grate on the hearth or in the ash-pan, or other receptacle below it, and thus to avoid the inconvenience of having to remove by hand said contents. t

My improvement will be at once understood by re-I ferring to the drawing, which presents a sectional view of' it, in connection with a re-place, the line of bisection being through the center of' the grate, from the i'ront to rear of the same. l

A marks the front bars or portion of` a grate, and B, my sliding bottom, the latter being provided with a hook, a, -underneath and at the center of its front bar, as shown, in order -to afford a convenient means for drawing out said bottom, by means of a bent poker or other suitable appliance, when the grate is hot, or by hand if' it be cold, and ltwo stops, 11, to` prevent it, by impingement against t xe lower cross-bar c of the front A, from being drawn wholly out'of' its place.

- The side bars of' the upright .portion of the grate should be made broader at their front than at their rear ends, in order to provide parallel supports for the bottom, and yet fit snugly into the jambs or sides of' the fire-place, which experience hasvproved should aways be inclined from the back of the fire-place outwardly, the better to deect the radiated heat vtherefrom in a proper direction to make i't effective for the purpose of warming the room'or chamber in which the lire-place is placed.

These side bars should also be cast with rebates', d, on their inner sides, on which the side bars of the sliding bottom may rest, and so be brought down as nearly to the same horizontal plane occupied by the higher portions of' said side bars as is compatible with a provision for a ledgelike outward projection at the tops thereof, to lcover the seams or joints between the parts, and to prevent the intrusion of' ashes or small pieces of coal into said joints, to interfere with thel easy working of' said bottom.

M v invention is applicable to grates of' all sizes and forms, however indefinitely they may be varied as to these two particulars or conditions, and it, therefore, is' in no wise dependent ou the mode in which grates may be constructed in other respects, nor to the particular form or configuration of them,`nor to their dimensions'. Gates made on my improved plan can be manufactured to suit all sizes and forms of' fireplaces with equal facility, and quite as cheaply as those of ordinary construction. They Acompletely fulfill all the objects designed to be accomplished by them, and are,

hence, the source of great relief' to every one who is called upon to clean out grates, build fires in them, &o. This I have demonstrated by actual experiment.

I do not claim making a fire-grate in two pieces, broadly, for I am aware that this has been done by Kelly, and perhaps by others.

The sliding grate-base, consisting of thc entire bottom, when the 'same is provided with fiauged sides and the stops b,l in combination with the corresponding fianched base-bars'of the grate-frame, as herein described, for the purpose set forth. v

EMMA NORMAN Witnesses:

ltUFUs 1t. RHODES, H. N. JENKINS. 

